Come Let Us Gather Together – Sunday Thought For The Day

I look forward to our weekly prayer group ministry.  I look forward to our bi-weekly men’s group gathering.  Likewise, I look forward to our Friday evening end of week worship service and our Sunday morning worship service, as eagerly as I look forward to spending time with my wife after work.

I look forward to hearing what God has done for individuals in our church. I look forward to hearing what my brothers and sisters in Christ have done during the week.  I look forward to encouraging a brother/sister who needs same. I look forward to watching the children and remembering when I would hold our now adult son, in my arms as we sang hymns. I look forward to giving my tithes, worshipping the Lord with hymns and our pastoral prayers. I look forward to hearing what our pastor is preaching that morning and how it will benefit me through the week. In brief, I look forward to being in God’s house with God’s people.  And, I cannot wait to spend time there each week. When I am in my Father’s house nothing else matters.  I’m not thinking about anything else but service to and worship of my Heavenly Father.

In Psalms 122:1, the Psalmist writes: “I was glad when they said unto me, Let us go into the house of the Lord.”  That is the way we should feel as we enter into our Lord’s house.

Even if we have had a particularly difficult week, the weariness and fatigue can be washed away once we are in God’s house. Even if we have been unfaithful to the Lord and/or haven’t behaved, as we know we should, we can have those days washed away in our Father’s house.

There are times, that as I sit worshipping, I think about what it will be like in heaven when I am in my eternal home praising my Savior face-to-face with a heavenly choir. I cannot imagine what it will be like to sing praises to our Heavenly Father with all of the heavenly hosts in my resurrected body that is perfect and free of and free from sin.

And most of all, I look forward to seeing my Savior and being able to touch Him, and hold his hand and tell him how much I love Him and how thankful I am He loved me enough to die for me. Yes, I know, we can do that right now, but to do it in the new heavenly city that Jesus has gone to prepare for us is beyond my earthly capacity to dream.

READ:

Psalm 100 (KJV)

1 Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.

2 Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

3 Know ye that the Lord he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

5 For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.